To follow the U.S. [World Tyrant] high-handed politics is leading the world to crime and death. But not a small number of countries and even the nations [Capitalist China, The New Russian Empire] calling for international impartiality and justice are chiming in with it, for the mere imminent [immediate] interests.

We should not overlook the high-handed politics and tyranny of the U.S. [The World Tyrant] any longer.

The U.S. [World Tyrant] wild ambition to dominate the world remains unchanged. It is proved well by its nuclear policy.

When the U.S. [The World Tyrant] succeeded in nuclear test in July 1945, the then President Truman raved that from now on the world will be under the jackboots of the United States [soon to become The World Tyrant August 6, 1945].

The U.S. [The World Tyrant] has made its appearance as “sole superpower” following the end of the Cold War [the collapse of the FAKE Soviet Union (1956-1991)]. Since then, its high-handedness has reached to the extreme pitch.

Bush I, ex-U.S.[World Tyrant] president, raved to the following effect: We must rule the world. It is why ours is the only super-power with necessary means.

It is the silly talk of the fool obssessed by megalomania that no country could match the United States [The World Tyrant] with mighty military power.

In fact the balance of power was destroyed and the object for military race disappeared [the collapse of the FAKE Soviet Union (1956-1991)]. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the United States is behaving imprudently, putting forward the goal of making the world [a] unipolar one and americanizing it [= leading the world to crime and death].

What is more dangerous is that the U.S. [The World Tyrant] is usurping the United Nations and other international organizations as tools to realize its policies of aggression and war, interference in internal affairs of sovereign countries, sanctions and pressure.

It has been well known in the world [as] a fact that today the strong-arm politics and tyranny of the United States [The World Tyrant] are unprecedentedly aggravating confrontation and tension and creating confusion on the international arena.

Following the U.S. [World Tyrant] power politics is a dangerous act fanning the effort to turn the international relations into one of domination and subordination.

To blindly follow the brigandish high-handedness of the United States [The World Tyrant] is precisely [a] self-destruction act.

Even though the United States [The World Tyrant] and some specific nations [Capitalist China, The New Russian Empire] adopt what they call resolutions with the power politics, it will by no means become righteous. When the resolutions of the UNSC are devoid of impartiality, they will become unjust ones, which will be accused in the world as ones going against the trend of the times.

The only way to be taken by the progressives of the world who love justice and peace is to decisively frustrate the strong-arm politics of the United States [The World Tyrant].

…histories of criticism rightly give a prominent place to Aristophanes. Many of the terms that constitute the standard vocabulary of later Greek criticism are first found so used in his plays. *Psuchros* is later the regular term for

failures caused by

misguided ingenuity or

[misguided] grandeur….

…the general ideas expressed in the debate (*agon*) between Aeschylus and Euripides in the *Frogs*, whether original or not, were clearly influential in shaping later stylistic theory.

The essence of the *agon* is the contrast:

grandiloquence confronts wit,

virility confronts decadence.

The Greeks loved such antitheses; and the effect of Aristophane’s formulation of this one was to set a pattern for later stylistic descriptions.

The same debate also contains ideas about the moral and practical value of poetry which are of considerable significance. Aeschylus ([at lines] 1030ff.) is made to enumerate the useful services of the early poets:

Orpheus for religion,

Musaeus for healing and oracles,

Hesiod for farming,

Homer for the art of war.

The joke, which is aimed at a notorious ‘bad soldier’ called Pantocles, who tried to put on his helmet first and his plume afterwards, derives wholly from the reference to Homer. The rest of the passage makes no contribution to the humorous point, except in so far as it builds up expectations.

[ Today we have not one Pantocles but three:

PANTOCLES OBAMA

PANTOCLES PUTIN

PANTOCLES XI

Three bad soldiers who rushed to put on their helmets first and their plumes afterwards. ]

It was an attitude problem, Air Force commanders insisted, not a matter of competence. And besides, they contended, security was never at risk in spite of what one commander called “rot” in the crew force.

Assurances aside, the crew’s failings appear unusually worrisome given its assignment: manning a nuclear missile base and being prepared at a moment’s notice to launch a Minuteman 3 if ordered by the president.

An investigation had revealed a force in disarray and resulted in the unprecedented removal of 17 launch officers from their duty at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., The Associated Press found.

Weapons safety rules were being violated and codes for the Air Force’s most powerful nuclear missiles may have been compromised, among other failings cited in a report.

Even the orders of superiors were being questioned, and they were not being shown the proper respect.

“We are, in fact, in a crisis right now,” Lt. Col. Jay Folds, deputy commander of the 91st Operations Group, told subordinates in an email obtained by the AP.

The group is responsible for all Minuteman 3 missile launch crews at Minot.

In his email, Folds lamented the remarkably poor reviews the launch officers received in a March inspection. Their missile launch skills were rated “marginal,” which the Air Force told the AP was the equivalent of a “D” grade.

Gen. Robert Kehler, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, told a House Armed Services panel that the Air Force assured him it is searching for root causes of the problem among missile launch officers at Minot Air Force Base, N.D.

Kehler said he has told the Strategic Command’s inspector general to review the results of the Minot inspection, which was performed by the Air Force Global Strike Command. That command is responsible for the missile unit’s training and readiness but would cede responsibility for them to Strategic Command in time of war.

At a separate House Appropriations Commiteee hearing Thursday, the Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Mark Welsh, found himself on the defensive over the Minot issue.

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., told Welsh that if the Minot problem had happened in the Navy’s nuclear force, the individuals involved would have been dismissed.

Welsh said Minot commanders were “concerned they were not taking the job seriously enough.”

“We are, in fact, in a crisis right now,” Lt. Col. Jay Folds, a deputy commander at Minot, told subordinates in the April 12 email. His group is responsible for all Minuteman 3 missile launch crews at Minot.

An army unit on Thursday confronted an armed terrorist group [that] was trying to attack a military checkpoint in Tal al-Khudr, in Daraa countryside and inflicted heavy losses upon its members, a military source said.

The source told SANA reporter that most members were killed or wounded as their vehicles, ammunition and weapons were destroyed.

Units of the armed forces carried out a series of operations against terrorists in al-Maslamiyeh area in the countryside of Aleppo which resulted in destroying a 23 mm caliber anti-aircraft gun at the glass factory.

An official source told SANA reporter that a mortar for terrorists was also destroyed at al-Khoulandi gas station, while numbers of terrorists were killed at the entrance of Handarat camp and in al-Zira’eh area.

The source added that an army unit also destroyed a mortar in the area surrounding the concrete factory and another 23 mm caliber anti-aircraft gun in al-Madafeh area, killing and injuring most of the terrorists spread in the area.

The source noted that an army unit eliminated a number of terrorists near the research center in Minnegh and in al-Alqamiyeh area, destroying two mortars which the terrorists had been using in attacking the residents and the properties.

The source added that most members of an armed terrorist group, including its leader Abdulrahman Abdulrahman, were killed, while amounts of weapons and ammunition were destroyed in al-Sfeireh area.

A number of tunnels were used by terrorists in their movements and hiding weapons were destroyed in a series of successful operations carried out by the Army units in the villages of al-Shumarieh, al-Rablawi, al-Rahmonieh, al-Zoubi and al-Kurdi farms and al-Sayyed shops in al-Qseir countryside.

A military source told SANA reporter that the operations resulted in seizing military weapons, ammunition, rockets and a number of protective masks.

A number of explosive devices of different weights planted on the crossroads were also dismantled.

A unit of our armed forces killed and wounded a number of terrorists on the outskirts of Palmyra city at orchards and destroyed large quantities of ammunition in their possession.

An official source told SANA reporter that the army inflicted major losses on the terrorists in al-Qseir city.

The source added that a unit of the army eliminated members of an armed terrorist group who were trying to run away from al-Qseir.

Army Units Destroy Terrorists’ Dens and Gatherings in Homs and its Countryside

Units of the Armed Forces Carried out operations against terrorists’ dens and gatherings in Homs and its countryside, inflicting heavy losses upon them.

An official source in the province told SANA that the Army units destroyed a number of terrorists’ dens and gatherings in al-Rastan, Taldou, al-Dabaa, Oush al-Warwar and al-Hamidia in al-Qseir countryside, killing and injuring several terrorists, in addition to destroying their equipment.

The source pointed out that engineering units dismantled several explosive devices planted by terrorists on Katinia- al-Gasania road after the Army had broken the blockade of the terrorists on al-Gasania town in al-Qseir countryside.

Meanwhile, other Army units continued hunting the armed terrorist groups in Wadi al-Sayeh, Bab-Hud and al-Qrabis in Homs , killing and injuring scores of terrorists, in addition to destroying their dens.

Operations Continue in Damascus Countryside, Security Restored to Most of Jarba

Meanwhile, the armed forces restored security and stability to the most parts of Jarba town in al-Nashabiyeh area in Damascus Countryside and continued chasing terrorists in the rest of the town, an official source told SANA reporter.

The source added that three heavy machineguns were destroyed and numbers of terrorists were killed and injured in a special operation in al-Shifouniyeh farms in Douma.

The engineering units dismantled around 20 explosive devices, weighing 15-30 kg, that had been planted by the terrorists on the sides of agricultural roads leading to al-Aliyeh town between Douma and Harasta.

In the meantime, army units continued operations in the eastern and northern parts of Joubar during which they killed a number of terrorists.

Another army unit eliminated terrroists and destroyed their weapons and equipment at Harmalleh tunnel between Joubar and Zamalka.

In the same context, a military source told SANA that units of the armed forces killed numbers of terrorists and injured others in the countryside of al-Nabek, Yabroud and Qara and destroyed many of their gatherings.

SANA reporter quoted a military source as saying that an army unit eliminated an armed terrorist group affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra on al-Sweida-Damascus highway that was transporting weapons and ammunition from al-Husseiniyeh to Najha area.

The source said various types of communication devices, documents, weapons and ammunition were seized.

and

Units of the Armed Forces carried out operations against terrorists’ dens and gatherings in al-Husinia and Darayaa in Damascus Countryside, killing several terrorists affiliated to “Jabhat al-Nusra”.

An official source told SANA that the Army units killed and injured scores of terrorists, most of them affiliated to “Jabhat al-Nusra” in al-Husinia town.

The source added that other Army units continued their operations in Darayaa, destroying two terrorists’ dens in al-Shyah and killing several terrorists, including snipers.

Units of the Armed Forces pursued terrorists in Daraa countryside, inflicting heavy losses upon them and seized their weapons and ammunition.

An official source told SANA that the Army units killed and injured a number of terrorists in Daraa al-Balad and Khurbit Ghazala. Among the dead terrorists were Nwras Ahmad al-Ghanim and Muhammad Abdulsatar.

A unit of the Syrian Army seized a large number of explosive devices in the farms surrounding al-Abbadeh town in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus countryside.

A military source told SANA reporter that the explosive devices were hidden in a terrorists’ den, adding that tens of explosive devices and a large number of advanced communication devices were seized in the den.

Units of the Armed Forces clashed with terrorists who were perpetrating acts of terrorism against citizens on al-Hasaka- Deir Ezzor road, killing and injuring scores of them [the terrorists], in addition to confiscating their weapons.

Meanwhile, [a] sound bomb planted by terrorists in al-Wihda Street was exploded next to al-Kaldan Church in al-Kamishli city, causing material damage in the site.

In the same context, another sound bomb was exploded next to al-Sharyaa street in al-Hasaka city without any damage or casualties.